Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple Doesn't support their Existing User Base
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.005144.6436@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <776@generic.UUCP> <14866@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 00:51:44 GMT

In article <14866@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>Apple did the same thing for Apple II owners with the Apple II card
>for the LC.  Now if only they'd support the GS!

I'm not objecting to the LC not the the II card for it. Obviously that
was done inorder to ease the transistion to the Mac. It is hardly
likely to result in increased AppleIIe software. It's simply a transition
into oblivion. Is that what you want for the GS?

In any case, I hope Apple realizes that there are other vendors out there
with interesting price/performance figures. Moreover, the home market is
evolving, and I doubt the Mac is the platform to build a home computer.
After being with Apple for many years( Mac->GS->Mac), i must tell you that 
I moved most of the Mac work to the NeXT, the GS acts as a terminal, the
Mac's as a MathWriter word processor and I just sinmply bought Commodore's
CDTV( basically an A500 with a CD-ROM floppy), which is family oriented
and can should you wish be turned into an A500( with SCSI, floppy,etc...).

Apple has probably lost me as a customer as my software base shifts. Since
you are talking of a diehard Apple user, I am more than put off by their
dilly dallying with the GS, and the hype surrounding True Type. There's
more to computers than spreadsheets, MacWrite,etc...I do hope they get
their acts together. The GS is a fine underestimated computer. The nonsense
that one hears here about moving up to DOS, Mac OS,etc...is just that. The
Mac has its place. No reason to alieanate loyal Apple users. While I'm
at it, I simply wish to put onto the record that I, for one, am not
impressed by System 7.0 . If that's what took 3 years to produce than...

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,...]